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I performed the last twelve leagues on a posthorse, which cost twice as much as in

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition; and he was raised so high above the mass of his fellow creatures that their distresses excited in him only a languid pity, such as that with which we regard the sufferings of the inferior animals, of a famished redbreast or of an overdriven posthorse.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

"When a man of wit and intelligence is taken in by old Fourchon," continued the general, "a retired cuirassier need not blush for having hunted that otter; which bears an enormous resemblance to the third posthorse we are made to pay for and never see."

Sons of the Soil Honor�� de Balzac 1824

The rest I will drive on, trusting that, contrary to the liberated posthorse in John Gilpin, the lumber of the wheels rattling behind me may put spirit in the poor brute who has to drag it.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

I performed the last twelve leagues on a posthorse, which cost twice as much as in

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 14 Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

I performed the last twelve leagues on a posthorse, which cost twice as much as in

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon 1715

Stratford, and from Stratford at Dunstable, whither he came the next day a little after noon, and within a few hours after Sophia had left it; and though he was obliged to stay here longer than he wished, while a smith, with great deliberation, shoed the posthorse he was to ride, he doubted not but to overtake his Sophia before she should set out from St. Albans; at which place he concluded, and very reasonably, that his lordship would stop and dine.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004